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SUMMARY:Move with intention
DESCRIPTION:Pilates | 7:45–8:30am       Chair Pilates | 10:00–10:45am \n\n\n\nEltiar Wellness in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop invite you to join us for a complimentary trial session. \n\n\n\nIssy’s Coffee & Gift Shop will be offering a free cappuccino and bulka to each participant! \n\n\n\nPilates | 7:45–8:30am \n\n\n\nA guided movement practice focused on strength\, control\, and awareness of the body. \n\n\n\n\nImproves posture and alignment\n\n\n\nBuilds deep\, functional strength\, especially in core and stability muscles\n\n\n\nReduces stiffness and physical tension\n\n\n\nSupports injury prevention and long-term mobility\n\n\n\n\nChair Pilates | 10:00–10:45am \n\n\n\nA gentle version of pilates done while seated or with support. \n\n\n\n\nDesigned for anyone who would benefit from a slower\, more supported pace\n\n\n\nSuitable for all mobility levels including older individuals and anyone with mobility concerns\n\n\n\nFocus on balance and joint movement\n\n\n\nBuilds confidence in the body\n\n\n\n\nSpaces are limited to 20 people per session. RSVP is essential. \n\n\n\nNo experience necessary. Wear comfortable\, loose-fitting clothing. All are welcome.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/move-with-intention/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260416T170000
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SUMMARY:Art\, Memory\, and Responsibility: Working Through the Afterlives of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:5 for 5:30pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, in partnership with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Pretoria and the British High Commission in Pretoria\, for a panel discussion with art historian and curator Dr Dorothea Schöne and artist Jessica Ostrowicz. \n\n\n\nThe discussion will explore how curatorial and artistic practice engages with the afterlives of the Holocaust\, examining questions of memory\, responsibility\, and the ways histories marked by persecution and rupture continue to shape contemporary cultural and artistic discourse. \n\n\n\nDr Dorothea Schöne is a Berlin-based art historian and curator\, currently serving as Director and CEO of Kunsthaus Dahlem. Under her leadership\, Kunsthaus Dahlem – located in the former studio of Nazi-era sculptor Arno Breker – has become an important space for critically engaging with the complex legacies of art and ideology in twentieth-century Germany. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art and curatorial practice. Schöne has received numerous international research grants and fellowships and was awarded the Hans-and Lea-Grundig Prize for her work on artists targeted under National Socialism. \n\n\n\nJessica Ostrowicz is a British artist whose practice explores ideas of home\, (be)longing\, diasporic displacement\, and transgenerational trauma. Working from the perspective of own Jewish family history\, her work reflects on the ways experiences of persecution and migration shape personal and collective identities across generations. Her recent exhibition Remaining Without Returning reflects on her family’s history of flight\, concealment\, and survival during and after the Holocaust\, and the lasting presence of this history in contemporary life. Ostrowicz has exhibited internationally\, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca\, Ikon Gallery in Birmingham\, the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt\, and the Nirox Foundation in South Africa. \n\n\n\nThrough a conversation between curator and artist\, this event will consider how contemporary art and exhibition practices engage with difficult histories\, and how memory of the Holocaust continues to be interpreted\, represented\, and worked through today.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/art-memory-and-responsibility-working-through-the-afterlives-of-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260419T150000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Darker Shade of Pale by Deborah Posel
DESCRIPTION:The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop invite you to a book launch for Darker Shade of Pale: Shtetl to Colony by Deborah Posel. \n\n\n\nDarker Shade of Pale traces the journey of Jewish families from the Russian Empire to colonial South Africa. Through the story of her grandfather Maurice Posel – an ordinary man whose struggles and disappointments mirror those of countless others – Deborah Posel challenges the common narrative of Jewish immigrant success in South Africa\, revealing a more complex and painful reality. \n\n\n\nPart memoir\, part global history\, part meditation on inherited trauma\, the book uncovers how preoccupations with status and success travelled from shtetl to colony\, and the psychological costs they incurred: the traumas of dislocation\, the weight of ambition\, and the shame of failure. It explores the ironies of this journeying for literate\, working women from the shtetl; the version of whiteness that South Africa assigned to Jews from Eastern Europe\, the various ways in which Jews interacted with Black people\, and some of the unexpected economic routes they chose\, as well as the prejudicial punches that Jewish immigrants had to take – from both the British and the already-assimilated English-speaking Jewish community in South Africa. \n\n\n\nThrough one man’s unfulfilled hopes\, Darker Shade of Pale asks what was truly given and what was taken in the making of new lives. \n\n\n\nDeborah Posel is a sociologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Cape Town\, founding director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) and UCT’s Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA). She has written extensively on South Africa’s past and present\, and on the making of its racial order. \n\n\n\nDeborah will be in conversation with Tali Nates\, Founder and Executive Director of the JHGC\, and Courtneigh Cloud Bernstein.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/book-launch-darker-shade-of-pale-by-deborah-posel/
LOCATION:Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop\, 1 Duncombe Road\, Forest Town\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260503T200000
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SUMMARY:Talking Memory Programme: Letters from the Afterlife
DESCRIPTION:The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory conversation with acclaimed writer and translator Goldie Morgentaler as she presents her novel Letters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson. \n\n\n\nLetters from the Afterlife tells the story of two women who survived the Holocaust and rebuilt their lives in countries whose language and culture were not their own – one in Canada\, one in Sweden. Through the correspondence between them\, the book traces what it meant to carry that past forward: the trauma\, the alienation\, and the quiet\, persistent work of making a life. \n\n\n\nExtraordinarily little has been written about how women survivors navigated the aftermath. This book is a rare exception. \n\n\n\nThe programme will feature: \n\n\n\nRochelle Saidel will open the conversation with reflections on the book as an intimate window into postwar women’s experience. \n\n\n\nGoldie Morgentaler\, writer\, translator\, and daughter of celebrated author and Holocaust survivor Chava Rosenfarb\, will discuss the book\, the correspondence at its heart\, and what it means to write from inside inherited memory. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented in partnership with the Remember the Women Institute\, the Rabin Chair Forum\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, and Classrooms Without Borders.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talking-memory-programme-letters-from-the-afterlife/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260514T173000
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SUMMARY:Sweet Home Sweet: exhibition opening workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to a participatory workshop to open the exhibition Sweet Home Sweet. \n\n\n\nIn 1942\, Richard Ores buried a jar of photographs in the ground at Płaszów Concentration Camp. After the war\, he dug it up. The photographs had survived. The exhibition traces the Ores family across generations\, geographies\, and loss – exploring what home means when it is something you carry\, construct\, and sometimes bury for safekeeping. \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, you are invited to think about your own jar. What would you place in it? What people\, places\, or objects hold your sense of home? Bring a photocopy of one or two photographs – of a person\, a place\, an object – anything that feels like home to you. It doesn’t need to be precious or perfect. Together\, we will map\, reflect\, and explore what home means and how we hold it. \n\n\n\nPlease note: the workshop is limited to 30 people so RSVP is essential \n\n\n\nAbout the exhibition:\n\n\n\nRichard Ores was born to a Jewish family in the centre of Kraków. He was fifteen years old when the war broke out. He survived and spent most of the rest of his life in the United States. Even though he lived there for more than fifty years\, he continued to feel deeply connected to Poland. He made dozens of trips back to his hometown\, often bringing his family with him. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition tells the story of Richard\, his family\, and their relationship to Poland over nearly a century. Richard was fascinated with photography and filmmaking his entire life\, endlessly documenting his experiences and the people around him. In creating this exhibition\, we relied on many of the photos and videos Richard created\, as well as interviews with members of his family.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/sweet-home-sweet-exhibition-opening-workshop/
LOCATION:Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, 1 Duncombe Rd\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, 2193\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260517T190000
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SUMMARY:Talking Memory Book Launch Event: Out of the Sky
DESCRIPTION:Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe with the Author Matti Friedman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory conversation marking the launch of Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe. \n\n\n\nIn 1944\, a group of young Jewish men and women – having escaped Europe – made the decision to return. Parachuting into Nazi-occupied territory under a British mission\, they went back to the continent that had tried to destroy them. Out of the Sky tells their story: the gap between the mission’s tragic reality and its powerful afterlife in Israeli memory\, and the question of what heroism means when it ends in failure. \n\n\n\nThe programme will feature: \n\n\n\nMatti Friedman\, author of Out of the Sky\, in conversation on the Jewish parachutists of 1944\, the archival research behind the book\, and the role of narrative in shaping collective memory. \n\n\n\nDr Rochelle Saidel will speak on Haviva Reick (1914–1944)\, one of three women among the parachutists\, who operated in Slovakia during the Slovak National Uprising – aiding Allied airmen\, working to rescue Jews\, and ultimately captured and murdered by Nazi collaborators. \n\n\n\nShlomit Dagan\, CEO of the Hannah Senesh House\, will reflect on Hannah Senesh and the ongoing work of remembrance and education. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented in partnership with the Remember the Women Institute\, the Hannah Senesh House\, Classrooms Without Borders\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.
URL:https://jhbholocaust.co.za/event/talking-memory-book-launch-event-out-of-the-sky/
LOCATION:Online
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